Field Commander Wieers - elrepohttp://dag.wiee.rs/blog/taxonomy/term/272/0
enCentOS 5.5 has been releasedhttp://dag.wiee.rs/blog/centos-55-has-been-released
<p>Your systems may already have picked it up, but if you haven't noticed, CentOS 5.5 has been released. You can find more information in the <a href="rhel-55-released-today">RHEL 5.5 release announcement</a>.</p>
<p>Additionally, the CentOS community compiles its own list of interesting tidbits in the <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.5">CentOS 5.5 release notes</a>, which is an interesting read as well. The CentOS 5.5 LiveCD is released at the same time and has a its own <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.5">release notes</a> in the wiki.</p>
<p>On top of that, my friends at the <a href="http://elrepo.org/">ELRepo</a> project already verified that our <a href="http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/x86_64/RPMS/">large collection of additional drivers for RHEL5 and CentOS-5</a> is working as expected with the updated 2.6.18 kernel of RHEL5.5 and CentOS 5.5.</p>
<p>A lot of good news on this (for me) sunny saturday.</p>
<p>Enjoy !</p>
http://dag.wiee.rs/blog/centos-55-has-been-released#commentscentoselrepolinuxreleaserhelSat, 15 May 2010 11:23:12 +0000dag218 at http://dag.wiee.rs/blogRPMforge: the desire for more professionalismhttp://dag.wiee.rs/blog/rpmforge-the-desire-for-more-professionalism
<p>I am being fed up with the state of our RPMforge infrastructure lately. The RPMrepo website is down, and the RPMforge wiki is hosted there. This is a theme recurring every XX months. I myself neglected the infrastructure (as long as the repositories work!), simply because I lack the time to maintain it.</p>
<p>But since it is becoming a liability and we have more people involved, I want to fix this once and for all, I am looking for a few donated managed servers that we can set up so a single glitch does not rip out some of our infrastructure.</p>
<p>I am not just looking for hardware, I am looking for hardware that is managed, internet connected and the associated bandwidth. This hardware would be used as:</p>
<ul>
<li> KVM hosts with VMs for RPMforge and ELRepo
<ul>
<li> an automated buildsystem (lack of HW now caused me to manually trigger builds)
</li><li> website, wiki, planet, mailinglists, subversion, repositories
</li><li> test-systems for automated package-testing/building/infrastructure
</li></ul>
</li><li> tier1/tier2 (managed) mirrors for RPMforge and ELRepo
<ul>
<li> a tiered setup, depending on the hardware/bandwidth
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<p>Next to this, I will be looking for some people I can trust for maintaining this infrastructure as well. And this requires us to organize ourselves better.</p>
<p>The lack of proper infrastructure/hardware always limited what we could do as a team. And this resulted in poor automation where in theory we could be doing a superb job ! We all know where our soft spots are: unresolved deps, single point of failure (me), compatibility with other repos, few good mirrors, hard to contribute, limited communication (me)...</p>
<p>Before the end of the year I would like to have a much more professional RPMforge project, seeing <a href="http://elrepo.org/">ELRepo</a> in action gives me hope that we can pull this off with RPMforge as well :-) And I will commit time the coming months to spend on this.</p>
<p>I am sorry to have to ask for this, but if your company makes use of RPMforge, it will directly benefit from a more professional RPMforge project. Better tools will allow us to engage more people more efficiently.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your consideration !</p>
<p><em>I send the above message to <a href="http://lists.rpmforge.net/">the RPMforge mailinglists</a>, so if you want to discuss this within the community you can <a href="http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2009-September/002744.html">reply</a> on the list as well.</em></p>
http://dag.wiee.rs/blog/rpmforge-the-desire-for-more-professionalism#commentsdonationelrepohardwareinfrastructurerpmforgeMon, 28 Sep 2009 04:03:56 +0000dag195 at http://dag.wiee.rs/blog